Professionals who provide trauma-informed therapy, advocacy, family court and legal services, or child welfare support must understand the nuanced and deeply destructive nature of coercive control.
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Misuse of the term narcissist takes the coercive controller off the hook for their behavior and being held accountable. Labeling takes away responsibility for coercive control from the abuser and provides an excuse to blame behavior on a mental health diagnosis. Not all narcissists abuse and not all abusers are narcissists. The additional problem with
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Many non-domestic violence professionals and the average person on the street consider domestic violence as strictly “physical violence”. Sometimes “emotional abuse” is acknowledged. Those experienced in intervention with domestic violence dynamics know there are many other tactics abusers use. Coercive Control with and without physical violence is becoming a more accepted term due to the comprehensive nature of domestic violence.
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Advocates talk with parents about the importance of building resilience skills in their children in relation to parenting time. Help children expand their horizons in positive, nurturing environments. Help children avoid toxic stress. Advocacy training for victims of domestic violence/abuse and coercive control includes custody and parenting time cases.
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Being told “you are the one that chose to have children with this man” is re-victimizing the victim. You did not choose to have children with the man he became. You chose to have children with the image he presented.
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You are unable to breathe or make a move even if your ex or almost ex is no longer physically with you.
His verbal and emotional abuse, threats and intimidation, coercion and control is now being carried out electronically.
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Impact of father’s abuse of mother results in toxic stress response by son. Father will not be held accountable for the criminal behavior he perpetrated during the marriage, post-separation, and most likely post-divorce. The son is being trained to be abusive and use coercion and control in his adult relationships. Who will eventually hold him accountable? Or, will he dodge criminal charges just like his father?
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How do you explain to someone who has not experienced emotional abuse what happens in your relationship? This was the question one protective mother asked me after expressing her frustration that her attorney did not understand what she was saying when she told him she was emotionally abused in her relationship.
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Survivors of intimate partner abuse often say “he was emotionally abusive in our relationship”. She describes emotional abuse and coercive control tactics.
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What is Coercive Control in Co-parenting? Patterns used to maintain control of the abuser’s former partner through the children, litigation of child custody (parenting time) proceedings, and marital dissolution.
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